At BuroHappold, we believe that the best solutions to the most complex challenges are underpinned by robust understanding and insight. That’s why we ask the big questions, challenge thinking and collaborate with clients, partners and citizens to deliver a truly integrated understanding of today’s urban challenges.

From our very first project we have used our intricate knowledge of the industry to push the boundaries and achieve more. It is this commitment that sets us apart, that adds value, that makes us award winning. We apply the same level of complex thought and specialist expertise to every project we work on.

Described by our clients as ‘passionate’, ‘innovative’, ‘collaborative’, BuroHappold Engineering is an independent, international engineering firm built up over the last 40 years, delivering creative, value led building and city solutions for an ever changing world.

BuroHappold is a people practice. The diversity of our staff is what makes us unique. Their skills and expertise, along with their creative, enthusiastic personalities, enquiring minds and creative flair are what maintains our innovative edge.

The enduring principles set out by our founding partner Sir Edmund ‘Ted’ Happold were care, value and elegance. We still adhere to this ethos today, offering a full range of engineering services and expertise to meet your project needs and create truly inspirational world class buildings and environments around the world.

In the construction world we design and make our built environment – the very fabric of our civilisation. There is room for an immensely diverse range of talents and what we tackle demands people with many different specialist skills; Thinkers, doers, analysts, generalists....equipped to deal with all aspects of the built environment.

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Sir Tim Smit, Co-Founder of the Eden Project, on energy independence for Cornwall: "If you were the king of an island dependent on something crucial to your wellbeing that comes from outside your shores, would the...

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Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery (WAG), home to one of the UK’s premium art and design collections, has reopened following an extensive reconfiguration under a 'slow conservation' strategy. Over time the gallery building had...

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The mayor of Bristol City Council, George Ferguson, has announced that the Populous Arena Team has won the RIBA international design competition for the Bristol Arena, which will bring a world-class entertainment and sports...

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Up until the global recession of 2008 infrastructure projects, including those with usage risk, were seen as being ideally suited for certain types of institutional investors where part of the offering needed to be a stead

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Architectural Digest recently named the nine best new university buildings around the world, including two BuroHappold Engineering projects that opened this year. Yale University’s new Foster+Partners designed School of...

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Designed to be one of the first LEED Platinum transit centers in the world, the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) is a world-class transportation gateway rooted in the tradition of grand rail stations yet...

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In our 4th issue of Y magazine we continue to celebrate the sheer breadth and depth of engineering. We talk with Gehl Architects about how cities have changed in the last 20 years. We discuss whether the...

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The National September 11th Memorial Museum Pavilion was one of 100 outstanding structures and built environments in New York City to receive an award for Built by Women (BxW NYC), sponsored by the Beverly Willis Architecture...

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Yesterday’s Government announcement of £2bn for England’s 39 Local Enterprise Partnerships for 2015-16 and a commitment to take this to £12bn by 2020-21 is an important step for the UK in re-balancing its economy betwe

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BuroHappold Engineering’s Thomas Kraubitz, a senior consultant based in Berlin, recently represented BuroHappold and the German Green Building Council (DGNB) as the principal resource for several training programmes on t

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Garden Plaza, a new green office building in the Żoliborz district of Warsaw, has achieved BREEAM certification. BuroHappold Engineering was responsible for the environmental assessment which helped the building to achieve this accolade.

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The Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi is the jewel in the crown of Saadiyat Island, the city’s new cultural district. Designed as a ‘museum city’, the new 58,000m2 art and exhibition centre boasts a myriad of gallery spaces clustered beneath a shallow domed canopy, creating an expansive yet intimate space in which visitors can meander and mingle at their leisure.

Working alongside HafenCity GmbH and Wilkinson Eyre Architects, we delivered the elegant and innovative Baakenhafen Bridge which will help to boost development to the east of the HafenCity district; an area that is set to become a new place to live and play over the next few years.

Part of the British high street since 1863, the Co-op is the UK’s largest mutual retailer with a turnover of over £13 billion. In 2009 the retailer commissioned a new 400,000 sq ft, 16 storey head office building in Manchester to provide a modern working environment and facilities which will allow greater freedom for flexible working by its staff.

The Copernicus Science Centre is one of the finest cultural and educational facilities of its kind in this part of Europe. Covering an area of around 20,000m2, the Centre houses six themed galleries, an amphitheatre, an art gallery, conference rooms and an incredible Discovery Park, which offers visitors the opportunity to get hands-on with educational games and scientific experiments.

The site of the Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City development is adjacent to the Arabian Gulf coastline, 85km south of Kuwait City. From two environmentally impoverished hyper saline creeks, an ecologically rich waterway city is growing. The development of the city is expected to be delivered in up to 10 stages over the course of a 25 year period which started in 2002.

Wadi Hanifah is a 120km long, 4500km2 watershed that passes through the capital city of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Located in the middle of the Najd Plateau it has been labelled the most significant natural feature in the region.

Construction of Ponte della Musica, a dual purpose pedestrian and public transport bridge crossing the substantial River Tiber in Rome, opened in mid 2011. This major crossing joins the banks of the River Tiber between the Foro Italico and the area of Flaminio.

BuroHappold has concluded the first phase of Wembley Infrastructure (Phase One). We have been involved in the project since 2002, starting with a simple project that has evolved into us providing a wide cross-section of our services to find the right solutions to a series of challenging design issues.